The tugboat in clip 4 goes in bow first, but the narrator describes clip 6 backwards and clip 7 backwards and therefore falling over onto the wrong side. Such obvious blunders are strange.
@@benstrout3231 when you have 1.2 million subscribers, I feel like quality goes out the window. You could use nothing but false info, and the sheer number of subscribers will keep the content and channel afloat regardless of mistakes.
Um ... hate to burst your bubble, but look up "bow" and "stern". By 7:30, twice you say "the bow" plunged into the water, when it was clearly the stern.
One of my favourite failed launches has to be the Sept 1907 launch of the Italian ocean liner _Principessa Jolanda_ . In those days it was apparently common to launch ships fully equipped and completed, however someone must have misjudged her balance and how she would sit on the water once she came, too quickly, off the slipway, because she began to slow list to her port side side. And kept going. And going. Until she was resting, completely submerged, on her side. It can't have helped if there were loose fittings and furniture, which would have all slid to the same side, as well as open or incomplete portholes. She also didn't have any coal aboard or ballast to balance out being top-heavy. The ship was scrapped from right where it was, and her sister ship was redesigned to be less top-heavy. She was gone in about 20 minutes, and never actually sailed. The sister lasted about three days before being sunk. When you look at the way liners were built, at least by the more famous British shipwrights, the hull and main boat decks would be completed, as well as at least some of the superstructure, however a significant portion of the ship would be completed after it was solidly in the water, tied again to a special portion of the dock while everything was finished. This way you knew how the ship would sit on the water.
I don't think it was usual to launch ships fully fitted out, although I could be wrong, but I usually see them only as a hull with the superstructure on it.
the sister ship lasted 18 years. she was called "Principessa Mafalda" and was launched in 1908 with much of her superstructure uninstalled in order to prevent the same disaster. The launch was successful and Mafalda was fully completed in March 1909. She sank In 1927 with 300+ fatalities. ;-)
@@tornadicstorm6624 Harland and Wolff in Belfast made a practice of installing engines and boilers at the construction phase -this gave better stability for launch and reduced the final fitting out time afloat.
Ballast. It's all about ballast at launches. If you don't have enough heavy machinery and equipment in the bottom and below the waterline the ship will invariably simply capsize. As did several of the ships in this vid that floated for just a moment on the surface and almost nothing being submerged below the painted waterlines.
Launch 5, in South Africa - this is actually a very common launch method in that part of South Africa. There is a lack of slipways along the coast, so beach surf launches (of both hard boats and RIB's) are the only way. The method used is also correct - speed up so when the car brakes the boat is pushed off the trailer because of its momentum and into the sea - the outboards are lifted up at that stage. Slow and steady actually doesn't work at all in this kind of launch - you need that speed and sudden stop. What went wrong here is that there must have been a shallow ridge just beyond the shore line which the stern of the boat hit. Most of the time such a shallow ridge is not present, so most launches like this actually work really well. Once the boat is afloat the outboards are lowered and the boat is turned towards the sea. Getting from there through the waves is where the real fun begins, and skippers must be experienced and knowledgeable to dodge the waves as they slowly weave through them to open sea. Recovery is usually by driving the boat up the beach and using a break-neck trailer. The 4x4 is a version of the original Toyota Land Cruiser - a real capable work-horse.
With all the crew already on board? They did not appear to be at all prepared for the plunge! That would have been me plunging over the side, just some silly bimbo looking forward to a day sunning myself on board someone's boat. :D Guess that's why they always have me meet them at the docks. For safety!
@@andersonsmith979 That is how it's done, crew onboard. You will have a very hard time getting people onboard after a successful beach launch as there is no jetty or still water for that matter. you usually wait for either a sizable wave to "carry" the boat before gunning the vehicle, timing is crucial and it also seems like that was a mistake made in this launch. high tide is usually easier.
That crane driver lifting the container on to the diesel laiden boat. He was literally hanging out the top of the upturned cabins' roof. Must've been scared absolutely shit-less
Re #8. I don't think the boat was too heavy for the cranes. Problem is that one of the straps broke, putting all the mass of the boat onto the one remaining crane. In fact, either the straps were overloaded, or imperfect due to wear.
The moral in most of these cases seems to be 1) always check your cables and fittings for wear and corrosion, and 2) if in doubt, use a stronger cable!
As for that lifeboat, the rear cable latch failed. It was obvious. Shouldn't have happened. I work on an offshore platform where we used to practice lowering down to the water with a small crew in the lifeboats. Unfortunately, several years ago, a similar lifeboat incident occured where several crew members died. Now we don't do live practice runs. And lowering the boats for drills happens very rarely.
To me it looks like the stern hook is not properly locked. As these things also have onload release option, the hook then opens because of that. Looks like a possible crew error to me.
This is a classic case of "Chineseium" - components that should be within proper spec but are simply not due to poor quality control. There is no way that that should have failed as it was a normal function of the design to be lifted like that.
The one @7:40 ... The *STERN* (the back end) plunged into the water (the *BOW* ... the front end ... followed later) AND you say she capsized "port-side" (port = left) when she is clearly on her starboard side (starboard = right). Or didn't you know she was launched stern-first?
Biggest issue with most of these situations is based on their country. Rules like chain grade and how that relates to static vs dynamic weight is huge in all these situations. Maybe the tug boat was 5000lbs lighter than the static weight limit of the chain, but it was probably 2-3x too heavy if you calculated the dynamic weight, since it was swinging. And #1, the yacht, all they needed was a docking pole. One of the most overlooked but incredibly important personal boating accessories. Being able to stop yourself in flowing water is super simple but this guy must've bought it from someone who'd never sailed before.
@suspicionofdeceit all designs are a compromise. That flat bottom suggests it was built to operate in a certain depth of water. A shoe box will float because as it tips, the side going down offers more buoyancy to the water as the other side offers less. It looked like they were trying to get the shoe box to float on its edge with not enough ballast.
The container is a Caterpillar generator set with a locomotive sized diesel engine which is why it was so heavy , given the loss of the crane , generator and ship I'm guessing it was a huge insurance claim
Whether it contained 600 gallons in its fuel tank I don't know, but 600 gallons is just three cubic yards, only a fraction of the size of that generator box.
All sort of stuff going on as you say launching Stern on, Ballasting would have helped a lot to settle her into the water... thinking the superstructure combined with that flat bottom coupled with launching into shallow water with fast flowing water, played its roll flipping same...
Also this is clickbait. Ship launches were promised but many of these are small boat launches. Also also sponsorships arent stupid. They are indicative of a healthy growing channel that produces good content
In No1 I used to work in the building behind the bridge. I'd often sit and have lunch on the bank where you see the people. Pity I missed this, it would have livened the day up!
That's starboard not port in the sideways tip ... I always remember "starboard shines green and port is glowing red" and I remember that port and left both have four letters ...
Was saying the same thing to myself, these people should get their terminology right if they're going to be narrating marine mishaps. There's also a pretty big difference between ships & boats, the "Iceberg" is pretty F*#king far from a ship!!!🤣🤣🤣
It's probably just the nerd in me but I remember that the early Viking longships always had their "steering board" on the right side of the ship. Over the centuries it morphed into Starboard. But that's just me. 😁👍
On nr 2 it was the hook on the life boat that failed due to human error. If the hook is not reset properly that happens. There has gone countless life's because of that, so one can say the lifeboat has actually "indirectly" killed more people than it has saved sadly.
3:22 Ironic, the crane on which the cable broke was not damaged at all - but because of its accident, the second crane was fcuked up. Imagine what a flow of swears operator of the first crane heard from his colleague.
Just a minor correction for you. You say "Bow" a lot when you really mean "Hull" . The hull is the water-tight structure that the rest of the boat mounts to and floats on. The bow of the ship is at the front. Great video though!
FYI the Bow is the pointy end in front and the stern is the rounder squared end at the back, ships and boats when launched down a ramp are most stable when the stern enters the water first, at ua-cam.com/video/_5y_IKATccE/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/_5y_IKATccE/v-deo.html it was said they sunk by the bow, but it was actually the stern.
Thanks for sharing your work @Underworld some interesting videos! The ship at 6:20 didn't seem to have too much of a list to warrant it capsizing. It's probably a good thing it done it on launch rather than at sea with a full crew.
They had already built the super structure and it was to top heavy is my guess, they no doubt thought it would be ok and intended to add ballast after the launch to keep the weight down but I am just guessing the way it tips over is the give away somebody got their math's wrong or just didn't check.
Bow is front stern is back. Also if you can't remember port and starboard remember they're both in alphabetical order. Port=Left Starboard=Right. See in order. P before S and L before R
Some years ago in Italy they lost an ocean liner that way. They wanted to have the ship almost finished before the launch and not do it along side a dock as usually done. But they forgot to do the weight/balance calculations as was apparent in several of the segments.
Before you make a video using ship terms, I suggest you learn which sides are what. Port = Left. Starboard = Right. Bow = Front. Stern = Back. 7:25 "the ship rolls down the airbags and the bow plunges into the water." 7:36 "The boat capsizes port side..." The Stern plunged into the water. The boat capsized Starboard side.
#5 is done all the time at Deep Creek Alaska, they give you a number and a tractor or truck backs you into the surf, you lower and start your motor and away you go. They park your trailer on shore and you show them your number upon returning from halibut or salmon fishing. You time out the waves and land on your trailer where a brave fellow hooks the winch line to the front and they pull you out.
Same comment: With all the crew already on board? They did not appear to be at all prepared for the sudden acceleration! That would have been me plunging over the side, just some silly bimbo looking forward to a day sunning myself on board someone else's boat. :D Guess that's why they always have me meet them at the docks. For safety!
Half the crane fails were just people errors, not knowing the weight limits of the cranes, using straps/cables that didn't have the correct tensile strength for the job and the main one i noticed, lifting huge loads without load spreaders. The life boat one was a linkage failure on one end, so likely it wasn't strong enough or poorly maintained.
in south africa we launch like that all the time but it takes experience that was just a poorly timed launch , our waves are to aggresive for slow n steady so we have to do it like that in most of the surfs
@ 7:22 the ship in Indonesia - It is stern first then she heeled over. Also, it is on the Starboard (Stbd) side, not Port Side as you mentioned in the video.
@@kathleenr4047 They probably managed to cover up the whole incident by destroying every recording device in use in Stockholm that day? I'm pretty sure 99% of all mobile phones used back in 1627 lacked the ability to record video and were used only for analog voice calls on the 450 Mhz band. Cam corders in Sweden at that time used Betamax tapes and nobody knows how to playback those nowdays. Most betamax systems in Sweden were replaced with VHS around 1650 because most porn videos used VHS instead of Betamax. I love history!
@@Apeshaft Excellent history lesson!! -- It was a joke. I was watching a video and they tell me about an additional event from long, long ago and I thought, "where's the video" knowing full and well there is no video in the 1600s. ☺
In your video, the description of No. 6 is all wrong. The stern(not the bow) plunges into the water and it then capsizes on it's starboard( not port) side.
In failure number two, the final comment is it seems to be a "classic issue of counter weight" more accurately this was a classic issue of incompetence. In most of these I would say incompetence in engineering was the failure mode.
That, or stabilizing lines until you can fill the ballast up. I wonder if it was due to not having fuel onboard, or maybe not being fully outfitted yet.
Actually that's the way they launch dory's into the surf on the coast of Oregon, and yes occasionally some poor soul gets his vehicle stuck, that's why at the launch sites they usually have a tow truck to pull the guys rig out of the surf. It works most of the time.
@ 11:00 one you said "Barge" it looked like a 4 crane cargo ship to me like a bulk carrier not a barge, so they should of used two cranes instead of one for stability.
I had to laugh at the Jeep gunning the boat towards the water. How do anyone think that was a good idea? I couldn't tell if the crane operator jumped out as it was going into the water in the San Cristobal clip. It looked like a crew member was still onboard the boat deck as well.
The container going to San Cristobal being hoisted onto the boat was a Caterpillar Generator. It probably had 600 gallons of diesel but that was just the fuel tank for the generator in the container.
They declared a state of emergency for that? They put up the floating retainers to manage the slick but 600 gallons is nothing in the ocean even to an island like the Galapagos.
@@Oldmane-420 how do the brakes get wet on dry land? It must be the ramp, either it's slippery or then the slope is just too much for the vehicle (the boat is pulling more than you have brakes for).
@@SamiJumppanen once the boat and trailer enter the water, the weight pulling the truck decreases as water creates friction and boat begins to float. Truck is not trying to stop while on dry land, only control boats rate of entry into water, the truck wheels are fully under water by time boat is deep enough for launch and brakes are wet and mostly nonexistent by that time.
question, number 9, i am ignorant when it comes to boats/marinas etc, but can see this type of launch with two straps under the boat is pretty common, why dont the boats itself have like a place on its sides to pass those straps in so they will not move back and forth or both straps are not secure between and in front and back of the boat like a full harness?.looks pretty simple and obvious to me, but, what the f.do i know!
Twice in the first few minutes you said bow when it was clearly the stern. You're obviously ignorant about boats. Hint: what you would call propellers (Screws) are located in the stern of the boat and so is the rudder, for future reference.
The cause of the life boat accident is totally obvious to those of us that have worked with cranes, the rope and hook were raised too high causing the top of the block (the bit that the hook is connected too) to touch the bottom of the boom, as the boom was raised higher the top of the block acting against the boom created a cantilever effect, which massively increased the tension on the cable and the cable broke. Not difficult to detect and understand the cause if you are trained properly.
You may know about cranes but you obviously have no idea when it comes to lifeboats & davits. The blocks stop at the underside of the davits and the winch then pulls the boat & davits inboard.and the boat is secured and the davits are locked in place. The winch is then backed off so the blocks are sitting on hooks under the davits, which takes the weight off the cables. The mechanical release of the block failed. If you are abandoning ship, you need such a mechanism to get the boat free of the cables...from within the lifeboat itself.
@@ferky123 --- Correct. With all the cable snaps in this video, I wonder if the problem isn't lack of regular inspection and replacement. Steel and salt water do mix (to the detriment of the steel).
Correct - Life Boat… and the cable didn’t snap… it was the shackle attachment mechanism…. Likely pulled beyond the working limit of the release cable and so it detached…
That is because it actually is a lifeboat. Most (if not all) ocean going vessels have similar lifeboats, some are not fully enclosed but as with ships, lifeboats too come in all shapes and sizes.
Better learn the difference between the BOW (front) and the STERN (rear) of a ship.
and port and starboard, and what a tug is....... and.... so many mistakes in the narration
Think I learned that from SpongeBob boating school xD floor it!
@@AntiRep31 your good! Your good! Keep going!
Kay ano nagbubuot ka gad
Also, loading a ship is not the same as launching a ship, duh.
Thanks for showing them in 18 seconds. It saves people a lot of time.
In example 4 you describe the launch as going bow first, it was stern first. Also the ship capsized to its starboard side not port side.
yeah i hate these stupid channels. first and last video i watched. annoying, not enough information, doesn't know what they talking about. gg blocked
I get the feeling the writer watched a reversed version of the video clips. Or they are total landlubbers.
They got many things wrong and only gave opinions as to what happened.
The tugboat in clip 4 goes in bow first, but the narrator describes clip 6 backwards and clip 7 backwards and therefore falling over onto the wrong side. Such obvious blunders are strange.
@@benstrout3231 when you have 1.2 million subscribers, I feel like quality goes out the window. You could use nothing but false info, and the sheer number of subscribers will keep the content and channel afloat regardless of mistakes.
Um ... hate to burst your bubble, but look up "bow" and "stern". By 7:30, twice you say "the bow" plunged into the water, when it was clearly the stern.
Ya made me giggle every time.
He also got starboard and port wrong
Yeah that was bugging me too. Glad I'm not the only one. 🤨😁
@@alrightyru ---- Maybe he's one of our elected representatives?
@@davesmith5656 Maybe a member of the Biden family? LMAO
way to much comentary
Wdym
Turn the volume down
He means there is more commentary than the actual point of the video.
Horrible spelling
@@Rachael-y5ibro created his own language
One of my favourite failed launches has to be the Sept 1907 launch of the Italian ocean liner _Principessa Jolanda_ . In those days it was apparently common to launch ships fully equipped and completed, however someone must have misjudged her balance and how she would sit on the water once she came, too quickly, off the slipway, because she began to slow list to her port side side. And kept going. And going. Until she was resting, completely submerged, on her side. It can't have helped if there were loose fittings and furniture, which would have all slid to the same side, as well as open or incomplete portholes. She also didn't have any coal aboard or ballast to balance out being top-heavy. The ship was scrapped from right where it was, and her sister ship was redesigned to be less top-heavy. She was gone in about 20 minutes, and never actually sailed. The sister lasted about three days before being sunk.
When you look at the way liners were built, at least by the more famous British shipwrights, the hull and main boat decks would be completed, as well as at least some of the superstructure, however a significant portion of the ship would be completed after it was solidly in the water, tied again to a special portion of the dock while everything was finished. This way you knew how the ship would sit on the water.
I don't think it was usual to launch ships fully fitted out, although I could be wrong, but I usually see them only as a hull with the superstructure on it.
the sister ship lasted 18 years. she was called "Principessa Mafalda" and was launched in 1908 with much of her superstructure uninstalled in order to prevent the same disaster. The launch was successful and Mafalda was fully completed in March 1909. She sank In 1927 with 300+ fatalities. ;-)
@@tornadicstorm6624 Harland and Wolff in Belfast made a practice of installing engines and boilers at the construction phase -this gave better stability for launch and reduced the final fitting out time afloat.
Ballast. It's all about ballast at launches. If you don't have enough heavy machinery and equipment in the bottom and below the waterline the ship will invariably simply capsize. As did several of the ships in this vid that floated for just a moment on the surface and almost nothing being submerged below the painted waterlines.
@@vasopel Yeah, we all can see why 300+ fatalities warrants a smile, Opel.
Launch 5, in South Africa - this is actually a very common launch method in that part of South Africa. There is a lack of slipways along the coast, so beach surf launches (of both hard boats and RIB's) are the only way. The method used is also correct - speed up so when the car brakes the boat is pushed off the trailer because of its momentum and into the sea - the outboards are lifted up at that stage. Slow and steady actually doesn't work at all in this kind of launch - you need that speed and sudden stop. What went wrong here is that there must have been a shallow ridge just beyond the shore line which the stern of the boat hit. Most of the time such a shallow ridge is not present, so most launches like this actually work really well. Once the boat is afloat the outboards are lowered and the boat is turned towards the sea. Getting from there through the waves is where the real fun begins, and skippers must be experienced and knowledgeable to dodge the waves as they slowly weave through them to open sea. Recovery is usually by driving the boat up the beach and using a break-neck trailer. The 4x4 is a version of the original Toyota Land Cruiser - a real capable work-horse.
Yep.......Beach launches are also common in Alaska.....
cool info thanks
Thanks so much for the knowledgeable comment!
With all the crew already on board? They did not appear to be at all prepared for the plunge! That would have been me plunging over the side, just some silly bimbo looking forward to a day sunning myself on board someone's boat. :D Guess that's why they always have me meet them at the docks. For safety!
@@andersonsmith979 That is how it's done, crew onboard. You will have a very hard time getting people onboard after a successful beach launch as there is no jetty or still water for that matter. you usually wait for either a sizable wave to "carry" the boat before gunning the vehicle, timing is crucial and it also seems like that was a mistake made in this launch. high tide is usually easier.
The ship: capsizes to starboard
Underworld: THE SHIP CAPSIZES TO THE PORT SIDE
Search up starboard and port side on ships then.
That crane driver lifting the container on to the diesel laiden boat. He was literally hanging out the top of the upturned cabins' roof. Must've been scared absolutely shit-less
Imagine the flow of swears that first crane operator heard from him )))
Re #8. I don't think the boat was too heavy for the cranes. Problem is that one of the straps broke, putting all the mass of the boat onto the one remaining crane. In fact, either the straps were overloaded, or imperfect due to wear.
The moral in most of these cases seems to be 1) always check your cables and fittings for wear and corrosion, and 2) if in doubt, use a stronger cable!
As for that lifeboat, the rear cable latch failed. It was obvious. Shouldn't have happened. I work on an offshore platform where we used to practice lowering down to the water with a small crew in the lifeboats. Unfortunately, several years ago, a similar lifeboat incident occured where several crew members died. Now we don't do live practice runs. And lowering the boats for drills happens very rarely.
Indeed, although I am unfamiliar with the correct term, it was clear a link failed, not the wire cable.
To me it looks like the stern hook is not properly locked.
As these things also have onload release option, the hook then opens because of that.
Looks like a possible crew error to me.
This is a classic case of "Chineseium" - components that should be within proper spec but are simply not due to poor quality control. There is no way that that should have failed as it was a normal function of the design to be lifted like that.
The one @7:40 ... The *STERN* (the back end) plunged into the water (the *BOW* ... the front end ... followed later) AND you say she capsized "port-side" (port = left) when she is clearly on her starboard side (starboard = right). Or didn't you know she was launched stern-first?
He has several more incorrect statements.
The boat was confused about whether it was a she or a he......
He's making it up as he goes . I say he should go "BUH-BYE"
Beat me to it.....by 13 days. Well spotted.
Come on man! This is 2023. The boats pronouns are they/it.
Biggest issue with most of these situations is based on their country. Rules like chain grade and how that relates to static vs dynamic weight is huge in all these situations. Maybe the tug boat was 5000lbs lighter than the static weight limit of the chain, but it was probably 2-3x too heavy if you calculated the dynamic weight, since it was swinging.
And #1, the yacht, all they needed was a docking pole. One of the most overlooked but incredibly important personal boating accessories. Being able to stop yourself in flowing water is super simple but this guy must've bought it from someone who'd never sailed before.
I liked your scientific explanation.
@suspicionofdeceit bad Shape with little reserve buoyancy and not enough ballast.
@suspicionofdeceit all designs are a compromise. That flat bottom suggests it was built to operate in a certain depth of water. A shoe box will float because as it tips, the side going down offers more buoyancy to the water as the other side offers less. It looked like they were trying to get the shoe box to float on its edge with not enough ballast.
Crazy
Ur in over your head and don't know it...but it fooled many of them, because of your fake Picture
The container is a Caterpillar generator set with a locomotive sized diesel engine which is why it was so heavy , given the loss of the crane , generator and ship I'm guessing it was a huge insurance claim
4:16 I don't think the lifting cable broke, I think that whatever they hooked onto on the boat broke.
#6 (Sarawak) has the appearance of the ship being launched with insufficient equipment or dead weight low in the hull, so it was top-heavy.
Yeah, no ballast in it at all. It's an unbelievable oversight.
7:57 the fact that you pronounce the name right as South-African makes me proud really love this channel
That was one of the few facts he got correct than.
South African is English but sounds like it’s in Reverse
Number 3 was a generator being put on the boat. Not a barge full of diesel. You dont usually transport them full of diesel
Whether it contained 600 gallons in its fuel tank I don't know, but 600 gallons is just three cubic yards, only a fraction of the size of that generator box.
showing 4 in the first 10 seconds was a real time saver!
When that one ship launched backwards & promptly rolled starboard, I thought: "OK, who installed all the equipment on that side of the ship?"
All sort of stuff going on as you say launching Stern on, Ballasting would have helped a lot to settle her into the water... thinking the superstructure combined with that flat bottom coupled with launching into shallow water with fast flowing water, played its roll flipping same...
I like this channel. No stupid ass sponsor. No clickbait. Good content.
And 10 minutes of unecessary commentary
Also this is clickbait. Ship launches were promised but many of these are small boat launches. Also also sponsorships arent stupid. They are indicative of a healthy growing channel that produces good content
@@Zephy3 no, they’re stupid af. I already have to deal with the ads. Fuck the sponsors. I’m not here so you make money.
There's a mighty thin line between those who launch boats, and those who jaunty slap on a captain's cap and proceed towards mayhem. . . .
those lifeboats are so tough that they can survive all that and roll right back over right side up, but ya gotta be buckeled in
In No1 I used to work in the building behind the bridge. I'd often sit and have lunch on the bank where you see the people. Pity I missed this, it would have livened the day up!
That's starboard not port in the sideways tip ... I always remember "starboard shines green and port is glowing red" and I remember that port and left both have four letters ...
'I LEFT the PORT behind'
Was saying the same thing to myself, these people should get their terminology right if they're going to be narrating marine mishaps. There's also a pretty big difference between ships & boats, the "Iceberg" is pretty F*#king far from a ship!!!🤣🤣🤣
Four letters in PORT, four letters in LEFT
It's probably just the nerd in me but I remember that the early Viking longships always had their "steering board" on the right side of the ship. Over the centuries it morphed into Starboard. But that's just me. 😁👍
@@c.j.cleveland7475 Good lord! How old are you???
Q: What did the owner say when the boat launch failed?
A: AWW SHIP!
NGL watching Millionaires and Billionaires Yachts plunge in the water and break put a smile on my face
Why?
@@BP-kx2ig because he’s a jealous loser. No other reason
@@BP-kx2ig if you have to ask that question then you're not yet awake.
@@growingup15 Why would it not be be funny if the owner was not a millionaire/ billionaire?
@@croissant3607 That is what I had thought.
On nr 2 it was the hook on the life boat that failed due to human error. If the hook is not reset properly that happens. There has gone countless life's because of that, so one can say the lifeboat has actually "indirectly" killed more people than it has saved sadly.
I agree.
FYI - the 'bow' is a the front of a vessel and 'stern' at the rear.
WRONG! The 'bow' is a gesture of respect and 'stern' is the nature of the remarks when a 'bow' is not properly rendered.
Everyone knows that!
I can't help feeling that water had some part to play in all of these mishaps.
Damn I almost didn't notice that they were sinking in water
3:22 Ironic, the crane on which the cable broke was not damaged at all - but because of its accident, the second crane was fcuked up. Imagine what a flow of swears operator of the first crane heard from his colleague.
Marine architects are under rated. Those trailer launches can be solved by a tongue extension.
Just a minor correction for you. You say "Bow" a lot when you really mean "Hull" . The hull is the water-tight structure that the rest of the boat mounts to and floats on. The bow of the ship is at the front. Great video though!
I love videos like this. 👍👍
you and i both =)
FYI the Bow is the pointy end in front and the stern is the rounder squared end at the back, ships and boats when launched down a ramp are most stable when the stern enters the water first, at ua-cam.com/video/_5y_IKATccE/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/_5y_IKATccE/v-deo.html it was said they sunk by the bow, but it was actually the stern.
13:12
This is why some people think that lifeboats may have killed more than they have saved...
Who would think that?
Thanks for sharing your work @Underworld some interesting videos! The ship at 6:20 didn't seem to have too much of a list to warrant it capsizing. It's probably a good thing it done it on launch rather than at sea with a full crew.
They had already built the super structure and it was to top heavy is my guess, they no doubt thought it would be ok and intended to add ballast after the launch to keep the weight down but I am just guessing the way it tips over is the give away somebody got their math's wrong or just didn't check.
No ballast and very top heavy
What was the name of that vessel?
6:35 it looks like that ship was totally missing some ballast
Bow is front stern is back. Also if you can't remember port and starboard remember they're both in alphabetical order. Port=Left Starboard=Right. See in order. P before S and L before R
Port and left has the same number of characters
And port is red which is the colour of the navigation light
13:30 The cables don't break; the slip mechanism operates and releases the cables. Just like it should but at the proper stage in the launching.
8:24 What the hell happened to that driver... 😂😂😂
He must have been drunk 😂
@@Aviation129 🤣🤣🤣
Someone forgot to fill the ballast tanks before launching that one ship.
Some years ago in Italy they lost an ocean liner that way. They wanted to have the ship almost finished before the launch and not do it along side a dock as usually done. But they forgot to do the weight/balance calculations as was apparent in several of the segments.
The first launch actually seemed successful... for the boat
"This should work." Famous last words.
#6 was launched pretty much as it should. But they forgot to ballast the boat properly, she was riding way too high in the water.
13:30 officer,
What you're boat sinking, take a lifeboat
That's the catch, my lifeboat is sinking.
Lesson at 7:00 Always ensure the tide is in before attempting to launch the large vessel.
Before you make a video using ship terms, I suggest you learn which sides are what. Port = Left. Starboard = Right. Bow = Front. Stern = Back. 7:25 "the ship rolls down the airbags and the bow plunges into the water."
7:36 "The boat capsizes port side..."
The Stern plunged into the water. The boat capsized Starboard side.
The first video had no business in this video. That was just
“Boat launches gone incredibly redneck.”
That is why physics should be mandatory in all fields of work.
#5 is done all the time at Deep Creek Alaska, they give you a number and a tractor or truck backs you into the surf, you lower and start your motor and away you go. They park your trailer on shore and you show them your number upon returning from halibut or salmon fishing. You time out the waves and land on your trailer where a brave fellow hooks the winch line to the front and they pull you out.
Same comment: With all the crew already on board? They did not appear to be at all prepared for the sudden acceleration! That would have been me plunging over the side, just some silly bimbo looking forward to a day sunning myself on board someone else's boat. :D
Guess that's why they always have me meet them at the docks. For safety!
In SA we simply beach the boat, literally drive it onto the beach then pull it back onto the trailer.
@@andersonsmith979 How do you think the crew would get on board if they beach launch the boat without them? magical teleporting?
Bow is the front of the boat. Stern is the back. Get it right.
This is what happens when you don't do the math correctly, objects too heavy for the crane's ability.
Or were not told the actual weight, a problem with shipping containers in some places. And/or were just hoping for the best.
I just came here for the shaming of inaccurate maritime lexicon.
Gaps and handshakes? AIS Tracking
Half the crane fails were just people errors, not knowing the weight limits of the cranes, using straps/cables that didn't have the correct tensile strength for the job and the main one i noticed, lifting huge loads without load spreaders.
The life boat one was a linkage failure on one end, so likely it wasn't strong enough or poorly maintained.
You do realize the bow of a boat is the front end??....
in south africa we launch like that all the time but it takes experience that was just a poorly timed launch , our waves are to aggresive for slow n steady so we have to do it like that in most of the surfs
@ 7:22 the ship in Indonesia - It is stern first then she heeled over. Also, it is on the Starboard (Stbd) side, not Port Side as you mentioned in the video.
You know, the whole point of video is that it doesn't require a narrator to tell us what we're seeing.
The launch of the Swedish warship Vasa back in 1627 also went a tiny bit wrong.
The Mary Rose also had an interesting if incredibly short maiden voyage, in front of the king as well!☺..
But is there video of that launch that went wrong in 1627?
@@kathleenr4047 They probably managed to cover up the whole incident by destroying every recording device in use in Stockholm that day? I'm pretty sure 99% of all mobile phones used back in 1627 lacked the ability to record video and were used only for analog voice calls on the 450 Mhz band. Cam corders in Sweden at that time used Betamax tapes and nobody knows how to playback those nowdays. Most betamax systems in Sweden were replaced with VHS around 1650 because most porn videos used VHS instead of Betamax. I love history!
@@Apeshaft Excellent history lesson!! -- It was a joke. I was watching a video and they tell me about an additional event from long, long ago and I thought, "where's the video" knowing full and well there is no video in the 1600s. ☺
The thing with watching Russian videos where things go wrong, you are guaranteed to get your video dose of Bl’yad. Always good! 😆
Там дальше было более грязное ругательство)))
That yacht falling off the sling is a common problem, just becouse it's good hydrodynamically does mean it's stable in the sling.
In your video, the description of No. 6 is all wrong. The stern(not the bow) plunges into the water and it then capsizes on it's starboard( not port) side.
I don’t know what’s funnier, the incompetence or the narrator getting the nautical terms wrong 😂
In failure number two, the final comment is it seems to be a "classic issue of counter weight" more accurately this was a classic issue of incompetence. In most of these I would say incompetence in engineering was the failure mode.
Thanks for sharing.
It would be nice if the narrator knew the difference between a bow and a stern.
American...
Shouldn't laugh at other people's misfortune, but #3 was just too funny cause they destroyed 3 things at once!
As per your 6th failed launch, vessel capsized to Stb side and not portside as you indicated.
Yeah typical indonesians mate, took a shortcut, and forgot the ballast... LOL
UK Boat Captain : If you fail once ,try to do it again.
He was persastant to fail again.
The 4th launch appears someone forgot that a ship that big needs ballast.
That, or stabilizing lines until you can fill the ballast up. I wonder if it was due to not having fuel onboard, or maybe not being fully outfitted yet.
"Strong currents" don't cause water to rise. They make it travel faster.
Is it just me, or when hauling out by Crane, do they all seem to go with cables with a failure rate of about 5% of the weight of the vessel?
No. It’s just you
Really sad for a lot of these people who are very dependent on the ocean.
7:27 a prime example of how not to do your weight calculations when designing a ship.
It should be called How to Sink a Ship in 10 Seconds !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
9:28 (number 4) there's absolutely nothing wrong. That was a special boat turning operation. Everything went according to plan.
Exactly, just a "special boat operation", Специальная корабль операция ... nothing to see here.
Actually that's the way they launch dory's into the surf on the coast of Oregon, and yes occasionally some poor soul gets his vehicle stuck, that's why at the launch sites they usually have a tow truck to pull the guys rig out of the surf. It works most of the time.
@ 11:00 one you said "Barge" it looked like a 4 crane cargo ship to me like a bulk carrier not a barge, so they should of used two cranes instead of one for stability.
Don't worry, they got many things wrong.
Also it didn't look like a tug, more like a lighter.
Oh, this just made my day.
I had to laugh at the Jeep gunning the boat towards the water. How do anyone think that was a good idea?
I couldn't tell if the crane operator jumped out as it was going into the water in the San Cristobal clip. It looked like a crew member was still onboard the boat deck as well.
The container going to San Cristobal being hoisted onto the boat was a Caterpillar Generator. It probably had 600 gallons of diesel but that was just the fuel tank for the generator in the container.
They declared a state of emergency for that? They put up the floating retainers to manage the slick but 600 gallons is nothing in the ocean even to an island like the Galapagos.
@@-Bill. diesel is bad. But I understand what you’re saying.
What causes brakes to fail so often while launching boats?
Wet brakes have reduced friction, hence less stopping power
@@Oldmane-420 thank you very much! I’ve been scratching my head for years over this. Seems so obvious now that you explain it.
@@Oldmane-420 how do the brakes get wet on dry land? It must be the ramp, either it's slippery or then the slope is just too much for the vehicle (the boat is pulling more than you have brakes for).
@@SamiJumppanen once the boat and trailer enter the water, the weight pulling the truck decreases as water creates friction and boat begins to float. Truck is not trying to stop while on dry land, only control boats rate of entry into water, the truck wheels are fully under water by time boat is deep enough for launch and brakes are wet and mostly nonexistent by that time.
@@SamiJumppanen Edit; if ramp were wet you would see wheels lock up and skid but they continue turning right up til they disappear into the water
14:38 Beavis and Butt-Head were watching this
question, number 9, i am ignorant when it comes to boats/marinas etc, but can see this type of launch with two straps under the boat is pretty common, why dont the boats itself have like a place on its sides to pass those straps in so they will not move back and forth or both straps are not secure between and in front and back of the boat like a full harness?.looks pretty simple and obvious to me, but, what the f.do i know!
1st one is repeated every summer day somewhere!!!!
Bow ? Port ? 🤣
So In love with the narrator's voice😍😍😍😍
Twice in the first few minutes you said bow when it was clearly the stern. You're obviously ignorant about boats.
Hint: what you would call propellers (Screws) are located in the stern of the boat and so is the rudder, for future reference.
6:50 2 minutes silence for those people who try to be Jack ( Leonardo Decaprio, Titanic ) ☠️💀
The cause of the life boat accident is totally obvious to those of us that have worked with cranes, the rope and hook were raised too high causing the top of the block (the bit that the hook is connected too) to touch the bottom of the boom, as the boom was raised higher the top of the block acting against the boom created a cantilever effect, which massively increased the tension on the cable and the cable broke.
Not difficult to detect and understand the cause if you are trained properly.
You may know about cranes but you obviously have no idea when it comes to lifeboats & davits.
The blocks stop at the underside of the davits and the winch then pulls the boat & davits inboard.and the boat is secured and the davits are locked in place. The winch is then backed off so the blocks are sitting on hooks under the davits, which takes the weight off the cables.
The mechanical release of the block failed.
If you are abandoning ship, you need such a mechanism to get the boat free of the cables...from within the lifeboat itself.
@@patagualianmostly7437 Obviously I know more about cables and blocks than you do, and I am more observant. don't let being wrong change a good story.
The crane didnt give way on the second one, looks like it slipped out of the slings!
10:10 "Ебать-копать!")))
Силу тяжести не обманешь ☝
First, could you define ship? Second, could you define launch? Most were just boats. Second, not many ships were launched.
Firstly, could you define second. You don't appear to know how to use the word
Wow someone is on there period
Oh, and he wasn't through yet. On number 4 he called Starboard Portside. Just saying.
@@awaismir3860 that's so funny he was trying to be a dick head but ended up looking like a dumb ass
@@Silo-Ren i caught that too.
#3 good job of the guy on the dock keeping an eye on the crane operator, he even took off his gear and got ready to dive in for him
portside? Looks starboard to me.
7:40 My guess; They didn't realize that launching
almost parallel to the shoreline might be a problem.
Liked how he kept calling the mini sub a lifeboat.
That's how all lifeboats on ships are made now.
@@ferky123 --- Correct. With all the cable snaps in this video, I wonder if the problem isn't lack of regular inspection and replacement. Steel and salt water do mix (to the detriment of the steel).
Correct - Life Boat… and the cable didn’t snap… it was the shackle attachment mechanism…. Likely pulled beyond the working limit of the release cable and so it detached…
That is because it actually is a lifeboat. Most (if not all) ocean going vessels have similar lifeboats, some are not fully enclosed but as with ships, lifeboats too come in all shapes and sizes.
@@punapirate Correct: life boat>shackle //// likely pulled beyond its corroded limit possibly due to deferred maintenance.